"Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab
people want to fight."

Gamel Abdel Nasser,
May 3oth 1967.

40 years since Arab-Israeli war

- Salim Mansur June 2nd 2007

Forty years ago this month Israel’s defence force
dealt a fatal blow to Arab war-mongers and the Pan-Arabism of the Egyptian
dictator, Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Forty years ago this month Israel’s defence force dealt a fatal blow
to Arab war-mongers and the Pan-Arabism of the Egyptian dictator, Gamal
Abdel Nasser.

Through the preceding weeks Arab preparations for a final showdown with
Israel had gathered unchecked steam.

Arab intent to annihilate the Jewish state was never masked following the
uneasy truce reached through the UN efforts in 1949 between the two sides.

But internal Arab politics as ever remained divisive, and the strident
call for Arab unity by dictators in Egypt and Syria barely hid the reality
of deeply entrenched quarrels within their world.

An axiom of modern Arab politics is the greater the internal division among
Arabs, the more strident is Arab rhetoric against Israel. In May, 1967,
this stridency reached its peak when Nasser announced on May 22 the closure
of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, which triggered the Six Day
War.

...

Jordan’s King Hussein, regretting his strategic blunder of joining
forces with Nasser and losing the West Bank to Israel, expelled the trouble-making
Palestinians from his domain after a bloody shootout in September 1970.

In receiving those Palestinians, Lebanon has not recovered from the disaster
visited upon that once easy-going Levantine state.

Palestinians, goaded by brutally corrupt leaders, went from hijacking airplanes,
murdering Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic of 1972, making common
cause with genocidal dictators of the Third World, vowing fealty to Communist
rulers in Moscow, to spreading terror through suicide-bombings and murdering
each other in their quest for “liberation” from Israeli occupation.

...

Yet the unvarnished truth of the Middle East remains unaltered and unspoken
since June 1967 even as Arab nationalism got exchanged for Islamist-jihadism.

Palestinians are responsible for their misery, and their rights among Arab
leaders have no more merit than those of the greater suffering people of
Darfur, except to malign Jews and taunt the West.

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